Private Wealth Law - Maryland
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What the Team is Known For
Venable offers a variety of services to high net worth individuals, including estate planning and tax advice. The firm's trusts and estates team has grown significantly in the last couple of years with the arrival of a group of attorneys from another Baltimore firm.
Strengths
Venable is top-notch.
Notable practitioners
Marianne Schmitt Hellauer's practice includes advising high net worth clients on estate planning strategies, including complex business and trust structuring issues. She also represents fiduciaries in estate and trust administration.
Jonathan Eisner deals with estate and tax planning issues and is particularly experienced at handling intergenerational wealth planning matters.
Thomas Grace's expertise spans gift, estate and generation-skipping tax optimisation strategies, among other estate planning techniques. Grace often acts as a fiduciary for his clients.
Jeffrey Gonya handles trust and estate matters and provides tax advice to high net worth clients. He also advises on trust and estate administration matters and often serves as trustee.
Jeffrey Gonya has got a number of key strengths. Not only does he have a lot of experience from having done this a long time, but he is extremely personable. Clients feel very comfortable around him. He asks pertinent questions without being intrusive, and he gets the information he needs.
